Chapter 1 page 9: "This change over has dramatically and irreversibly shifted the content and meaning of public discourse since 2 media so vastly different can not accommodate the same ideas." They say that typography can never be the same or as good as visual medic. This is true when they make books into movies. When they made Harry Potter a movie it was definitely not as good as the books were because they can not capture every moment on film.
Chapter 2 page 16: "Therein is our problem, for television is at its most trivial and, therefore, most dangerous when its aspirations are high, when it presents itself as a carrier of important cultural information." The news is thought of to be a carrier of important information but when they say Justin Bieber's haircut is news it is ridiculous. A haircut of a celebrity is not something that is needed to be know by the nation it is irrelevant.
Chapter 3 page 41: "The influence of the printed word in every arena of public discourse was insistent and powerful not merely because of the quantity of printed matter but because of its monopoly." This, however, is not necessarily true. Harry Potter books and Twilight books are definitely something to contradict this statement. These books became a cultural phenomenon even before they were created into movies.
Chapter 4 page 45: "Is there any audience of Americans today who could endure seven hours of talk?" This is most definitely true. I can hardly sit through a 45 minute class period without dosing off or daydreaming. I am not sure if this is because of the decrease in the age of Typography, but it is true that Americans today have much shorter attention spans.
Chapter 5 page 78: "Television is the command center in subtler ways as well. Our use of the other media, for example, is largely orchestrated by television." Television is starting to control what people do and do not use or see. For example, when people see a commercial for a movie, it has to automatically catch their eye and amuse them. If the commercial does not sell the movie to be funny then no one will see it. However, some movies that do not have good commercials end up being quality films.
Chapter 6 page 87: "But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining, but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience." Entertainment has become the root of all experience. This is proven through commercials. The companies with the most commercials are the ones that everyone knows. Look about McDonald's, they have a commercial on every break, and yet they are known worldwide and the main fast food place, even though their food does not taste well at all.
Chapter 7 page 107: " I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed." Today in the news we think that if we get a five minute special or "Breaking News Alert" about something going on in the Middle East then we are experts. When really we do not know anything about the middle east. The news reporters only tell us what seems to be important or things that make USA look good so we do not seem to be in any danger. However, we think that we know everything that is going on when we know nothing.
Chapter 8 page 116: "It is the perfect television sermon-theatrical, emotional, and ina curious way comforting, even to a Jewish viewer." The television preachers today focus solely on louring people in with good news and happiness. Joel Olstein is a professional at this. When he preaches he preaches solely gospel so people never have to hear about their penalties and consequences for sins. And this works because people are entertained so they are hooked.
Chapter 9 page 141: "Television does not ban books, it simply displaces them." There is a book series called "Pretty Little Liars" and hardly any people knew about it until the television series came about. Once the television series came out though, no one needed to waste time reading the books when they had it played out for them in the television series. Even though the TV series was completely different then the books, but the viewers would never know the difference.
Chapter 10 page 145: " We face the rapid dissolution of the assumptions of an education organized around the slow-moving printed word, and the equally rapid emergence of a new education based on the speed of light image." In almost all of my classes my teachers teach with PowerPoint slides. Which is not a bad thing, they serve as a learning aid to help students take notes. And generally there is a video to go along with each chapter to help students learn. So, television is slowing creeping into our school and our curriculum so that way students can pay closer attention and they have something to look at. This is live proof that most students learn better with a visual aid which is proof of the descending age of Typography.
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